“The plan to turn an FPS into an action-RPG like Zelda was a challenge”. Let me tell you a true story, readers: I was a staff writer at Imagine Publishing circa 2006, and we had to make some sort of short list of Game Boy games, a Top 6 or something, for either GamesTM or…
What’s that one with the plumber and the mushrooms again? Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
Twenty-twenty-FOOOOOOOOUR!!! A round of applause for you and yours — you did it! You made it through the gauntlet of 2023’s brilliant video games all the way to a brand new year. Happy 2024, everyone! With Switch entering its seventh year in 2023, our expectations — with the exception of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom,…
Old School Gamer chats with Flap Happy developed Ryan Carson, who discusses the game’s development cycle and current Kickstarter. Support the game on Kickstarter here. Old School Gamer: How was this game born? Ryan Carson: Initially, Flap Happy came from a simple decision, “I reckon I can make this as a NES game” After having…
It may be the start of a new Wordle year, but there’s no reason why you can’t keep your 2023 win streak going with our tips and tricks. Whether you’re hoping for a little nudge towards today’s answer or want to see the solution to the January 1 (926) Wordle offered up in a single…
Valve has released their annual Best of Steam 2023, a showcase of what was played most and made the most money broken down into roughly grouped tiers: Platinum, Gold, Silver, and Bronze. In a year of absolutely great games, some of these chart-toppers aren’t surprises, but dang I’d never have guessed that Half-Life, the 1998…
Highly anticiapted (at least around here) surival shooter Road to Vostok has a brand new demo out. It’s a lot like the old public demo, indeed the developer calls it Public Demo 1 Version 3, with one huge caveat: Road to Vostok now runs on the Godot game engine rather than Unity. The in-development post-apocalyptic…
An upcoming action RPG sends a condemned criminal into the depths of a forsaken land in order to get loot and save and/or destroy the world. Into the Necrovale is listed as Coming Soon on Steam, but it has a pretty healthy demo that you can try immediately. Into the Necrovale builds on the kind…
Star power. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! When Ryan met Charles. Good times! Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“Our Pikmin aren’t going to die”. Over the holiday season, we’re republishing select articles from Nintendo Life writers and contributors as part of our Best of 2023 series. Enjoy! While having a strong and deservingly passionate fanbase, it’s fair to wonder if the Pikmin series has ever received the commercial success it deserves. Yet, Shigeru…